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US President Donald Trump didn't know about the extreme munitions shortage that is threatening to limit US military options in Iran, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a source.
As one walks among the burial plots of Zionist leaders on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, one finds remarkably few rabbis. The mountain is populated instead by presidents, prime ministers, military commanders and political leaders whose decisions transformed the Zionist movement from aspiration into reality.
US President Donald Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over Washington's critical shortage during the war on Iran, The Washington Post reported.
During the past five months, the UAE and its economy have experienced events that would leave most other countries quite damaged. The Iran war – arguably the Gulf's biggest challenge since Covid-19 – has disrupted energy, shipping and investment as well as shaking confidence across the region. That the UAE’s success…
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lifted sanctions on Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two of its aircraft on Wednesday, clearing a carrier Washington had blacklisted in January 2024 over alleged support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.
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LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders.
Iran said the U.S. was ready to "return to commitments," while denying that negotiations were ongoing with Washington, after President Donald Trump signaled a deal was in the making.
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Israel struck multiple targets in southern Lebanon on Wednesday in what was described as the heaviest bombardment since the ceasefire took effect in early June. The attacks occurred as Israeli and Lebanese negotiators held US-brokered talks in Rome.
US forces "used up virtually all" of their precision, long-range missiles during the course of the Iran war, and during the earlier heavy US-Israeli campaign of Operation Epic Fury, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Israeli forces were seen beating a Palestinian man while they were conducting a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Wednesday.
Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) petitioned an administrative court to urge the Israeli prison system to allow for an independent physician to examine Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya.
STRAIT. Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, April 18, 2026.
The IDF "will not relent until we bring every person who played a part in the [October 7] massacre to justice," IDF Chief of General Staff, Eyal Zamir said on Wednesday while conducting an operational assessment in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir said that the army will continue what he described as “proactive” operations in Gaza to “remove threats and defend Israeli communities and residents,” according to a statement released by the military on Wednesday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that Israel has “no intention or plan for peace” and is using diplomatic platforms to advance what he described as its “illegal strategies” aimed at expansion.
The White House and Pentagon have pushed back on a slate of recent reports indicating that supplies of both offensive and defensive weapons have dropped dangerously low after five months of war on Iran.
Israel’s military released a statement saying it mistakenly launched an interceptor missile after initially misidentifying its own military fire from operations in southern Lebanon.
Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin met with her Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty on Wednesday to discuss the need to mobilise international action against Israeli policies and measures in occupied Jerusalem.
After spending more than $30m on a candidate who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary on Wednesday, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the US has now indicated it will pivot to the Republican in that race come November.
Un hombre libanés dentro de una iglesia dañada en la aldea de Zawtar al-Gharbieh, al sur del Líbano, el miércoles 5 de agosto de 2026. (AP Foto/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said that talks with Oman over future transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz have been “moving forward”, with the coordinates of the routes now agreed upon.
The ministry did not release any specific details on the proposed route
In the first 90 seconds of his victory speech in Detroit Wednesday, Abdul El-Sayed both lambasted the influence of AIPAC and appealed to his rival Haley Stevens, who had benefited from the pro-Israel lobby’s massive resources, to campaign with him.
Seventeen civilian activists from the Uri Tzafon movement were detained by the military and returned to Israel after crossing the border into Lebanon on Wednesday.
NEW YORK — Stock markets climbed but then stalled Wednesday as investors digested a wave of company earnings that broadly surpassed expectations, while assessing the chances of a US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
As the US-Iran war threatens to ignite a worldwide energy crisis, another hotspot may come to a boil: Taiwan. During a recent visit to Taipei, I didn’t need to read Mandarin to spot the lead news story every day: Another step in China’s campaign to intimidate the island.
The Israeli military has fired artillery at Majdel Zoun in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, Lebanon’s National News Agency has reported.
Israel’s foreign ministry has hit back after a declaration issued by the Arab Ministerial Committee condemned Israel’s policies and measures in occupied Jerusalem.
Former ministers Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel announced on Wednesday that they would demand the National Security Ministry portfolio in the next government for Hendel, as they unveiled the platform of their newly launched The Zionist Home-The Reservists party.
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Israel has continued military operations in Gaza, intensifying strikes since US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a “historic agreement” to implement the next phase of the ceasefire.
Israel has continued military operations in Gaza, intensifying strikes since US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a “historic agreement” to implement the next phase of the ceasefire.
Hundreds of vessels are stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran and Oman moved closer to an agreement that could ease strain on the global economy.
Joint statement with Oman is being finalised, but Tehran says deal alone would not guarantee waterway’s security
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview aired by state TV on Wednesday that interaction with the country's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is currently "very difficult."
The US Democratic Party went to the polls across five states on Tuesday.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iraq expressed a wish for good relations on Wednesday, after the kingdom had said oil sites had been attacked from Iraqi territory.
Yemen's Houthis said they targeted a Saudi oil vessel in the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the group's military spokesperson on Wednesday.
I read with interest Argentinian Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno’s Jerusalem Post op-ed claiming Argentinian sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The United Kingdom’s position, however, is clear: the Falkland Islands are British, and self-determination lies with the islanders.
Numerous figures involved in the Nakba exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) have either justified or minimized Hamas’ October 7 attacks, according to a review by B'nai Brith Canada obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post.
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A small group of young women associated with the Uri Tzafon Movement, a far-right settler group that calls for settlement in southern Lebanon, illegally crossed the border into southern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to the Times of Israel, citing the Israeli military.
As tensions persist in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and with Iran, Walla learned on Wednesday that IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir met with the General Staff Forum on Monday regarding the continued development of the IDF's robotic instruments.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem of “serving Israel” rather than “Lebanon’s sovereignty” on Tuesday, turning around accusations that Hezbollah supporters have repeatedly directed at state officials engaged in talks to end the war with Jerusalem.
Israelis have rarely been more critical of Europe. Since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, relations between Israel and several European Union member states have entered one of their most difficult periods in recent memory.
The US Central Command (Centcom) said on Wednesday that it has redirected three more commercial vessels as part of continued enforcement of its blockade against Iran.